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Rickett's Circus became a holding zone or drop off point for those suffering from yellow fever. The building normally sheltered a circus troop that was closed for the summer. The building became a place of death and isolation, as sufferers were dropped there to die.... no one was there to nurse them.

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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793